[#5] 02/06/2002-08/06/2002 Ah Qing was 16 yrs old.
It was really a great experience to tour China again with a big grp of ppl ( ard 80). Well, went with my sec sch's CO to Fujian Province for a concert cum tour lah. Some of my pals didnt go but this time round, my CelloBass gang folks were with me ( my juniors basically). Thanks alot guys, you had made this trip a memorable one! hehe!
Reached Xiamen after my 4 hrs plus flight with Air China. On the whole the flight was alright..the plane was kinda old to me...and the food sux. I could only complain about that lah..though dont have inflight entertainment service, I was not really that bored. haha! Actually i remembered i was praying hard when the plane started to fly, thanks to the 911 incident. hahaha! Xiamen airport was kinda small, but a pleasant one. Didnt have much chance to look around anyway, we hopped into the bus and travelled to Quan Zhou. pathetic 5 hrs..gosh. PY and me kenna seperated frm the CB gang..coz we were the seniors..lolz! ya..the seniors took the small bus with the teachers & parents lah...song bo? lucky we gotta watch videos on the way, or else bored to death. hahaha! think the rest was not so lucky lah! hehehe! China's expressway was really "empty" lah...besides the road u can only see the sceneries..hardly any trees. haha!
stopped by at a little mart to buy stuffs. Haiz..when we reached..the souls from the other 2 buses had already chiong into the mart and grabbed the stuffs! damn it! lolz! alright..the mart was pathetic when i reached lah..nearly emptied by us?! hahaha! nothing much left for us anyway, most of them bought bottles of soft drinks & cup noodles. think the mart had a great day ya? hahaha!
Finally, reached the hotel lah. along the way, Quan Zhou really dont looked like a city to me. Little modernised buildings plus there was only a main road ba? It was located at a mountainous area...the whole scene i got really doesnt fit into the "city" category. We had a very warm welcome at the hotel...got TV crew to film us leh?! lolz...we were superstars ah? The hotel main door had this red cloth hanged up there to welcome us...really shiok sia!!! Felt so dua pai..hehe!
Went to visit a vocational school after that...attracted a big crowd. think we went to see a performance, and some of us were invited up on stage. lolz! the china ppl were very friendly wor? waved to us when we were leaving the place...song! Watched the news on the tv, saw our pals on the tv! hahaha! ok lah..think the whole grp was excited lah..imagined we were on tv?!
Had our little concert the next day, basically the cellos were giving me big probs! haiz..hate tuning them..and scared the strings snapped. haiz...it was really ma fan to carry the instruments here and there...and i was the only senior frm CB..haiz. My only regret was i didnt get the photos for the concert..haiz!
Visited the 海外交通史博物馆，清源山老君岩 & the pagodas ( forgot the name). Then at night, we took 6 hrs train ride to 武夷山. it was one of the 四大名山. hehe! Anyway, our grp booked the first class seats lah..but not all of us can fit in..coz too many ppl. so some of us gotta sacrificed. CB gang did..coz we wanted to sit together...( 1st class gotta in grps of 4) So we sit in the "economy" class lah..err..nt very comfortable..6 together...think got ppl smoked in the train...u shld know who they were right? hahaha! had a cup noodle on the train...and played games lah...terrible 6 hrs..haha!
Finally, we reached le！the first stop was the 九曲溪. geog students! it was really a place to see what we had studied on our bks. Anyway, we took a wooden raft to tour ard the area. The water was so sparkling clear and cool! yes...we could feel the water hor..even saw a small water snake swam across our raft..hahaha! really a nice experience! Next, was to climb 武夷山. Haiz..i hate climbing...once u climbed cannot "go stan"...one way traffic. The tour guide told us that we cld end up climbing with both our hands & legs..tt was true. i really did that at the steep part. it was safer and faster to climb that way..haha! finally reached the top of the mountain, got a temple there lah..cld see the 九曲溪 frm the top...damn beautiful! visited the 朱嘉纪念馆 too.
somewhere during the trip we passed by fuzhou. sadly, i only had lunch there, then we carried on our trip..Fuzhou was the provincal capital of Fujian lah...very modernised too!
Took a domestic flight to Xiamen frm wu yi shan airport ( which was located at somewhere high) very small...and we gotta walked to the plane..dun have tt bridge ( wat was it called?) Anyway, took the New Xiamen airlines...first time travelled in a small plane...lucky the journey was stable..wah seh..when we took off cld see the mountains like beside us wor! haha terrific!
Yeah..back in xiamen! I was taken by surprised that the city was so modernised! haha! sua gu lah! visited 陈嘉庚's tomb...it was really magnificant. Also, saw the 集美学村. Xiamen was actually on an island btw. Visited the crocodile farm and on our way to 南普陀寺，our coaches drove into 厦门大学. one of the top unis in south china.
had a vegetarian lunch @ the temple..met some chinese who smoked in the air-con restaurant..we requested our tour guide to tell them nt to smoke..hahaha! i was watching the world cup match..germany vs saudi arabia! hahaha! Then, we went to shop at the 大学街,most of us bought stuffs frm the cd shop..hehee!
A must-see in xiamen was to go to the 鼓浪屿, an offshore island..took ferry there. Heard that ppl who lived there had piano in their hses..forgot abt the details...haha! Took cable car to reach the top of the island..hehe! can see the xiamen city view...cool! visited the bird park too...
The plane we took was frm another model ba? only got biz & econs class. anyway the seat was so big and comfty...shiok! haha..i think our grp nearly "booked" the whole plane lah..hahaha! food was still kinda sucky to me..and they showed "101 dalmations"..which i had seen upteen times..gosh! luckily i bought cds ah..or else bored to death sia! hehe!
Well, recommend u guys to visit Fujian if u have the chance...southern china food was definitely much better than northern china cuisine. lolz!
Sunday 31 July 2005
Tuesday 24 May 2005
Ah Qing's memorial journal # 4 - Perth, Australia
[#4] 11/12/2000-17/12/2000 Ah Qing was 14 years old.
Eh..got 5 "1st-times" happened. First, 1st time went to Australia. 2nd, 1st time went overseas without family ( i went with chinese orchestra). 3rd, 1st time i went overseas twice in a yr ( went to china in june). 4th, 1st time travelled in a night flight.5th, ate kangaroo meat.
Ok..went to a "remote" part of Aus..Western Aus...perth lah! haha! why say remote leh..coz it was out of the place mah..most Aus cities were at the eastern or south-eastern part of the continent..perth was in the west..
well, impression of perth..BORING! haha! dunno why leh...no tv entertainment ( the tv @ the hotel was spoiled! ) eh...the ppl there tends to slp early..haah ( we were too noisy in the hotel so kenna complaint many times by other ppl..they slpt damn early like 9 something at night..WTH?!) shopping was kinda boring too..( shops closed early on weekdays, weekends at the most opened till 9.30pm..which was considered quite early too. Things were not cheap too..haha! though the swatch watches there were cheaper than sg de..but that was in yr 2000 lah..now i dun think so)
went there in summer mah..pretty hot..the sky there quite cloudless lah..so cld feel the sunlight "hitting" on ur skin directly...sianz..weather dry too...alamak!
Perth's airport was located @ somewhere rural ba..got a dist from perth city..the airport quite old and small too..compared to asian airports..haiz! i think it was worst than china's domestic airports i had been.
lucky perth was not so far frm sg..4 hrs flight..quite fun lah! the food was considered great..if i wanna compared it with SIA's china flight..they got gave us chocolate ice-creams wor?! haha!
anyway, reached perth in the early mornings...couldnt slp (4am liao) haha!
Went to Forest Place to shop around..the post office there was quite grand lah..nice building! we actually had an outdoor performance there..but the place was kinda small so we kenna squeezed together..quite hard to play lah..had my mcdonald meal there..quite big size wor? nice! haha! the packaging was a little better than sg.
went to a high school to perform ( forgot the sch name) eh..their concert band also performed for us..like an exchange performance ya? got quite a no. of asians in that sch wor? haha! got interaction with them and had a meal there..gotta forced myself to eat hotdog bun..alamak! terrible! eh..after that we visited Yan Chep National Park! saw koala bears!!! so cute!!! Also, went to Crystal Cave..ah..saw what i learnt in geography..stalagmites, helictites, columns and shawls. amazing leh! some stalagmites were like statues..cool!
Tumbulgum farm was my 1st visit to a farm lah..all sorts of animals u can imagine..saw how they shaved the sheep's skin..quite can ren..haha! also saw emu and kangaroos there..had my lunch..eh..in bbq style..got emu & kangaroo meat lah..i dun dare to eat emu meat..lolz! kangaroo meat was ok..like beef lah..butta given a chance again i wont eat lah..sicko leh!
Caversham wildlife park was something like the safari zoo in daytime..saw some animals that we wont get to see in sg lah. had camel ride..which was my 1st time too..haha! err..the ride wasnt very comfortable to me..haha!
next, went to a small city near perth called Fremantle. nice sunny place by the beach!!! haha!
australian beach was just so diff from our east coast ah! the sea was so clear man! and of coz got tons of babes and hunks there lah..lolz! went to visit fremantle monument,fremantle prison and had lunch @ a fish & chip restaurant by the sea...wah seh! their fish & chip super large! can be shared by 2 persons lah..haha! ( dunno how i finished it?) Other places i had visited included Lake Monger, King's Park state war memorial ( near my hotel)..can see the skyline view of perth...like our shenton way!
Eh..basically the roads were quite empty at night lah ( 8pm onwards) not safe for young ppl to walk alone or two lah..got bad guys out there..haha! only those pubs wld opened late lah..so siam those places also..got lots of drunkards! eh...the flies there were larger than our sg flies too..haha! they dun fly off ur hands or whatever so easily de wor?! lolz!
Perth...in my opinion..is a nice place to tour lah..overall. though i wondered why so many ppl said it was so nice to live in..diaoz...boring place man!
Eh..got 5 "1st-times" happened. First, 1st time went to Australia. 2nd, 1st time went overseas without family ( i went with chinese orchestra). 3rd, 1st time i went overseas twice in a yr ( went to china in june). 4th, 1st time travelled in a night flight.5th, ate kangaroo meat.
Ok..went to a "remote" part of Aus..Western Aus...perth lah! haha! why say remote leh..coz it was out of the place mah..most Aus cities were at the eastern or south-eastern part of the continent..perth was in the west..
well, impression of perth..BORING! haha! dunno why leh...no tv entertainment ( the tv @ the hotel was spoiled! ) eh...the ppl there tends to slp early..haah ( we were too noisy in the hotel so kenna complaint many times by other ppl..they slpt damn early like 9 something at night..WTH?!) shopping was kinda boring too..( shops closed early on weekdays, weekends at the most opened till 9.30pm..which was considered quite early too. Things were not cheap too..haha! though the swatch watches there were cheaper than sg de..but that was in yr 2000 lah..now i dun think so)
went there in summer mah..pretty hot..the sky there quite cloudless lah..so cld feel the sunlight "hitting" on ur skin directly...sianz..weather dry too...alamak!
Perth's airport was located @ somewhere rural ba..got a dist from perth city..the airport quite old and small too..compared to asian airports..haiz! i think it was worst than china's domestic airports i had been.
lucky perth was not so far frm sg..4 hrs flight..quite fun lah! the food was considered great..if i wanna compared it with SIA's china flight..they got gave us chocolate ice-creams wor?! haha!
anyway, reached perth in the early mornings...couldnt slp (4am liao) haha!
Went to Forest Place to shop around..the post office there was quite grand lah..nice building! we actually had an outdoor performance there..but the place was kinda small so we kenna squeezed together..quite hard to play lah..had my mcdonald meal there..quite big size wor? nice! haha! the packaging was a little better than sg.
went to a high school to perform ( forgot the sch name) eh..their concert band also performed for us..like an exchange performance ya? got quite a no. of asians in that sch wor? haha! got interaction with them and had a meal there..gotta forced myself to eat hotdog bun..alamak! terrible! eh..after that we visited Yan Chep National Park! saw koala bears!!! so cute!!! Also, went to Crystal Cave..ah..saw what i learnt in geography..stalagmites, helictites, columns and shawls. amazing leh! some stalagmites were like statues..cool!
Tumbulgum farm was my 1st visit to a farm lah..all sorts of animals u can imagine..saw how they shaved the sheep's skin..quite can ren..haha! also saw emu and kangaroos there..had my lunch..eh..in bbq style..got emu & kangaroo meat lah..i dun dare to eat emu meat..lolz! kangaroo meat was ok..like beef lah..butta given a chance again i wont eat lah..sicko leh!
Caversham wildlife park was something like the safari zoo in daytime..saw some animals that we wont get to see in sg lah. had camel ride..which was my 1st time too..haha! err..the ride wasnt very comfortable to me..haha!
next, went to a small city near perth called Fremantle. nice sunny place by the beach!!! haha!
australian beach was just so diff from our east coast ah! the sea was so clear man! and of coz got tons of babes and hunks there lah..lolz! went to visit fremantle monument,fremantle prison and had lunch @ a fish & chip restaurant by the sea...wah seh! their fish & chip super large! can be shared by 2 persons lah..haha! ( dunno how i finished it?) Other places i had visited included Lake Monger, King's Park state war memorial ( near my hotel)..can see the skyline view of perth...like our shenton way!
Eh..basically the roads were quite empty at night lah ( 8pm onwards) not safe for young ppl to walk alone or two lah..got bad guys out there..haha! only those pubs wld opened late lah..so siam those places also..got lots of drunkards! eh...the flies there were larger than our sg flies too..haha! they dun fly off ur hands or whatever so easily de wor?! lolz!
Perth...in my opinion..is a nice place to tour lah..overall. though i wondered why so many ppl said it was so nice to live in..diaoz...boring place man!
Friday 18 March 2005
Ah Qing's memorial journal # 3 - Beijing, China
[#3] 17/6/2000-23/6/2000 Ah Qing was 14 yrs old
Well..i think i had waited for another trip for too long..haha! Hmm...we went to Beijing,Tian jin & Cheng de during the 7 days trip & we took SIA again...( didnt really enjoyed the journey when i was on my way back...something wrong with my ears...pain..sobbzzz but the salmon dinner was nice..whaha) First day went to see za ji performance @ a hall...their standard is ok..but i think there are a few more professional ones...(like from shenyang etc) Went to visit Gu Gong as well as Tian An Men square..really ren shan ren hai sia~ haha! met other fellow singaporeans too..u know ctc got many groups of aunties ..lolx! The sad thing abt tt day was we cannot enter the building where mao ze dong's embalmed body lies...haiz...it was closed for maintanance i think...ke xi ! Also saw rem min da hui tang...magnificant!
There were many parks in beijing lah..like bei hai gong yuan & the famous yu he yuan...very scenetic.....The ming dynasty wax museum was full of different sections showing different ming kings i think...
Mei shang guo chang cheng fei nai zi han! ya!!! must climb the great wall mah! haiz..my mum & I quite shi bai lah..becoz we were affected by the altitude of the great wall..started kenna running nose..nvm..sis and dad climbed really far...ok..i think they reached the 5th stop or what..haha! some foreigners were siao de...run down the stairs lor..ok lah they were confident they wont fall lah...ahha! but i think better dun try that out...once u fall ah dunno where u will land.
Tian tan was really a magnificant building...forgot abt the story behind it..haha!
took a 5 hrs bus ride to cheng de..a small city outside beijing ba..haha!
we were brought to this place where "huan zhu ge ge" was filmed at..also we visited da guan yuan...really shi qing hua yi ne~the most tedious thing on that day was to climb the xiao bu da la gong ( a tibetan temple ) dunno how many steps ah...250++? haiz...go china bo bian have to climb here and there u c...haha! anyway the real bu da la gong is in tibet ah..think much higher than the china one...u could view great sceneries when u reached the top of the temple..hoho!
Visted yong he gong...i think it was related to the qing emperor yong zheng? haha! anyway, qing buildings were quite special somehow lah..like at the entrance there was a "pai" saying the name of the building, with inscripts of the Qing language beside the chinese words.
I bought a chinese chess set @ tian jin..then also bought a set of chinese cha ju..whahaha! my sis and i even had a few rounds of wu zi qi with the tour guide richard..hoho! we win lah of coz! eh..tian jin's famous bao called gou bu li bao zi is not nice to eat ok...haha! u know..even dogs dun wan to eat the bao..nice meh? Tian jin's food was much better than beijing..coz they got fresh seafood...beijing's food was rather "terrible" damn oily and meaty..they hardly eat vegetables de..sobbzz! Had my stay in beijing international hotel, not bad lah...many singaporeans stayed there too...
Go china sure they will bring u to those tea house/shops where u can buy different kinds of tea lah..butta actually dun need to buy so much de..not that cheap also. Eh .. i remembered abt a meal called "huang di can" or the meal of the emperor..wah seh...many plates of chicken and eggs in different style...damn sianz..bei fang ren ate alot of meat..so bo bian lah.
Didnt eat much fish there...remembered i ate one which got a strong ni tu smell..alamak...fainted!
beijing's famous xiu shui jie had gone le lah...becoz the govt wants to revamp that area...it was near those embassys of other countries..saw singapore de...pink house..wahahah! Anyway that street was full of imitations lah..alot alot hor..and dun be surprised to see ang mohs k? haha!
u can also see the red army soldiers marching on the streets..think 45 degrees huh? wah seh very neat eh...kaoz!
the shopping centres there dun sell cheap stuff..i think now maybe more expensive..haha! I dun like the shou du airport also...very metallic and quiet..haha! ok it was new then lah..maybe now better liao...who knows?
the haiding area is famous also..becoz it is the home of many beijing's universities..haha! i got passed by Peking uni's entrance ah...haha! Anyway, can try to visit there too...
Well..i think i had waited for another trip for too long..haha! Hmm...we went to Beijing,Tian jin & Cheng de during the 7 days trip & we took SIA again...( didnt really enjoyed the journey when i was on my way back...something wrong with my ears...pain..sobbzzz but the salmon dinner was nice..whaha) First day went to see za ji performance @ a hall...their standard is ok..but i think there are a few more professional ones...(like from shenyang etc) Went to visit Gu Gong as well as Tian An Men square..really ren shan ren hai sia~ haha! met other fellow singaporeans too..u know ctc got many groups of aunties ..lolx! The sad thing abt tt day was we cannot enter the building where mao ze dong's embalmed body lies...haiz...it was closed for maintanance i think...ke xi ! Also saw rem min da hui tang...magnificant!
There were many parks in beijing lah..like bei hai gong yuan & the famous yu he yuan...very scenetic.....The ming dynasty wax museum was full of different sections showing different ming kings i think...
Mei shang guo chang cheng fei nai zi han! ya!!! must climb the great wall mah! haiz..my mum & I quite shi bai lah..becoz we were affected by the altitude of the great wall..started kenna running nose..nvm..sis and dad climbed really far...ok..i think they reached the 5th stop or what..haha! some foreigners were siao de...run down the stairs lor..ok lah they were confident they wont fall lah...ahha! but i think better dun try that out...once u fall ah dunno where u will land.
Tian tan was really a magnificant building...forgot abt the story behind it..haha!
took a 5 hrs bus ride to cheng de..a small city outside beijing ba..haha!
we were brought to this place where "huan zhu ge ge" was filmed at..also we visited da guan yuan...really shi qing hua yi ne~the most tedious thing on that day was to climb the xiao bu da la gong ( a tibetan temple ) dunno how many steps ah...250++? haiz...go china bo bian have to climb here and there u c...haha! anyway the real bu da la gong is in tibet ah..think much higher than the china one...u could view great sceneries when u reached the top of the temple..hoho!
Visted yong he gong...i think it was related to the qing emperor yong zheng? haha! anyway, qing buildings were quite special somehow lah..like at the entrance there was a "pai" saying the name of the building, with inscripts of the Qing language beside the chinese words.
I bought a chinese chess set @ tian jin..then also bought a set of chinese cha ju..whahaha! my sis and i even had a few rounds of wu zi qi with the tour guide richard..hoho! we win lah of coz! eh..tian jin's famous bao called gou bu li bao zi is not nice to eat ok...haha! u know..even dogs dun wan to eat the bao..nice meh? Tian jin's food was much better than beijing..coz they got fresh seafood...beijing's food was rather "terrible" damn oily and meaty..they hardly eat vegetables de..sobbzz! Had my stay in beijing international hotel, not bad lah...many singaporeans stayed there too...
Go china sure they will bring u to those tea house/shops where u can buy different kinds of tea lah..butta actually dun need to buy so much de..not that cheap also. Eh .. i remembered abt a meal called "huang di can" or the meal of the emperor..wah seh...many plates of chicken and eggs in different style...damn sianz..bei fang ren ate alot of meat..so bo bian lah.
Didnt eat much fish there...remembered i ate one which got a strong ni tu smell..alamak...fainted!
beijing's famous xiu shui jie had gone le lah...becoz the govt wants to revamp that area...it was near those embassys of other countries..saw singapore de...pink house..wahahah! Anyway that street was full of imitations lah..alot alot hor..and dun be surprised to see ang mohs k? haha!
u can also see the red army soldiers marching on the streets..think 45 degrees huh? wah seh very neat eh...kaoz!
the shopping centres there dun sell cheap stuff..i think now maybe more expensive..haha! I dun like the shou du airport also...very metallic and quiet..haha! ok it was new then lah..maybe now better liao...who knows?
the haiding area is famous also..becoz it is the home of many beijing's universities..haha! i got passed by Peking uni's entrance ah...haha! Anyway, can try to visit there too...
Wednesday 16 February 2005
Ah Qing's memorial journal # 2 -Thailand
[#2] 4/12/1995-10/12/1995 Ah Qing was 9 yrs old
My first trip to Thailand...first time boarded SIA..shiok! haha! Anyway, first stop to Thailand was not Bangkok lah..I went to the city of Pattaya..which was dunno how many km south of Bangkok...also a place for resorts & sea sports ba! First day watched a cultural performance there, then saw the elephants show..dunno ke lian the animals or the ppl..haiz! Think that night my parents went to watch "tiger show"..( got sexual content ba?) My sis and i stayed alone in the hotel room..felt asleep with the door locked..haha! dad n mum " fei le jiu niu er hu zhi li" to open the door lock lah..muhahaha! kenna scolding the next morning..
Went to coral island...damn a beautiful island ah...many sea sports were held there too! The sea ah was blue colour de hor! muhahaha! ( dont worry the island still exist..not affected by tsunami) we took the sampan ride to see the corals lah...very nice, but somehow scared of the sampan..haha! btw, we took speed boats to coral island lah..kaoz those drivers also " tiao gang" drove their boats damn fast and made big turns..shiok lah..but kenna wet...hahaha!
We went to see the mini-siam ( or xiao ren guo) think is in bangkok ba? haha! Can see alot of world's famous structure and buildings there lah...( think world's xiao ren guos are almost the same?)
Took a boat ride to have the buffet meal in a restaurant by the mei nan river..ate one kind of seashells ( those green ones..) wah seh really kns! from then onwards i dont dare to eat that seashell again..till recently finally dare to eat...in pasta restaurants..hahaha!
went to chiang lai..which is at the northern tip of thailand...weather was very cooling in dec..think ard 10++ degrees c? went to visit a cottage..got many many trees with colourful flowers...the roses there were so big lor..haha! also, went to visit the thai-mynamar-laos border..sometimes called" jin san jiao"..there got a natural "wen quan" ba..can cooked eggs there de wor...
the most memoriable part of the trip was the 16 hrs bus ride from chiang lai to thailand's 2nd city chiang mai..( but thailand only got one big city...u know geography? haha!) Back to the ride, wah seh...cold cold cold...till u cant sleep...the only fella who slept like piggy was my sis!!! kaoz called her wake up also failed...and my parents n i couldnt sleep..Really pei fu my sis..coz she fell asleep liao she didnt feel cold..sobbz..took her blanket away! hahah!
Took a break @ a nearby coffeeshop..drank milo...kaoz my hands were shaking terribly...and u know what...when we talked got smoke eh! wah....really as if i was in dunno what cold land! hahah! the experience was rather bad but then shiok lor...so contradicting..diaoz!
Visited many temples in thailand...cant remember much...the bangkok one was the most magnificant one...made of gold...shining! took thai airways from chiang mai airport to bangkok..the trip was comfortable..that yr was sea games also..held in thailand ba..hoho!
back to bangkok lah...went to their ocean park..quite similar to what we have lah..also went to their safari zoo...but in the day lah..their crocodile farm was really...magnificant..compared to sg de ba? ( havent visit the croco farm in sg yet..but i think it is small lah)
Basically, these was how much i can recall back abt my thailand trip lah..thanks to my photos.
thinking of visiting thailand again...too bad no chance to go to phuket lah..haiz! I think bangkok now got more places to shop compared to last time ba? i bought quite a few handicrafts from there wor...very cute...still at my hm "rotting"..haha! err..i got a pair of earrings carved from wood de..but nv wore it b4..haiz...
wanna go overseas again~
My first trip to Thailand...first time boarded SIA..shiok! haha! Anyway, first stop to Thailand was not Bangkok lah..I went to the city of Pattaya..which was dunno how many km south of Bangkok...also a place for resorts & sea sports ba! First day watched a cultural performance there, then saw the elephants show..dunno ke lian the animals or the ppl..haiz! Think that night my parents went to watch "tiger show"..( got sexual content ba?) My sis and i stayed alone in the hotel room..felt asleep with the door locked..haha! dad n mum " fei le jiu niu er hu zhi li" to open the door lock lah..muhahaha! kenna scolding the next morning..
Went to coral island...damn a beautiful island ah...many sea sports were held there too! The sea ah was blue colour de hor! muhahaha! ( dont worry the island still exist..not affected by tsunami) we took the sampan ride to see the corals lah...very nice, but somehow scared of the sampan..haha! btw, we took speed boats to coral island lah..kaoz those drivers also " tiao gang" drove their boats damn fast and made big turns..shiok lah..but kenna wet...hahaha!
We went to see the mini-siam ( or xiao ren guo) think is in bangkok ba? haha! Can see alot of world's famous structure and buildings there lah...( think world's xiao ren guos are almost the same?)
Took a boat ride to have the buffet meal in a restaurant by the mei nan river..ate one kind of seashells ( those green ones..) wah seh really kns! from then onwards i dont dare to eat that seashell again..till recently finally dare to eat...in pasta restaurants..hahaha!
went to chiang lai..which is at the northern tip of thailand...weather was very cooling in dec..think ard 10++ degrees c? went to visit a cottage..got many many trees with colourful flowers...the roses there were so big lor..haha! also, went to visit the thai-mynamar-laos border..sometimes called" jin san jiao"..there got a natural "wen quan" ba..can cooked eggs there de wor...
the most memoriable part of the trip was the 16 hrs bus ride from chiang lai to thailand's 2nd city chiang mai..( but thailand only got one big city...u know geography? haha!) Back to the ride, wah seh...cold cold cold...till u cant sleep...the only fella who slept like piggy was my sis!!! kaoz called her wake up also failed...and my parents n i couldnt sleep..Really pei fu my sis..coz she fell asleep liao she didnt feel cold..sobbz..took her blanket away! hahah!
Took a break @ a nearby coffeeshop..drank milo...kaoz my hands were shaking terribly...and u know what...when we talked got smoke eh! wah....really as if i was in dunno what cold land! hahah! the experience was rather bad but then shiok lor...so contradicting..diaoz!
Visited many temples in thailand...cant remember much...the bangkok one was the most magnificant one...made of gold...shining! took thai airways from chiang mai airport to bangkok..the trip was comfortable..that yr was sea games also..held in thailand ba..hoho!
back to bangkok lah...went to their ocean park..quite similar to what we have lah..also went to their safari zoo...but in the day lah..their crocodile farm was really...magnificant..compared to sg de ba? ( havent visit the croco farm in sg yet..but i think it is small lah)
Basically, these was how much i can recall back abt my thailand trip lah..thanks to my photos.
thinking of visiting thailand again...too bad no chance to go to phuket lah..haiz! I think bangkok now got more places to shop compared to last time ba? i bought quite a few handicrafts from there wor...very cute...still at my hm "rotting"..haha! err..i got a pair of earrings carved from wood de..but nv wore it b4..haiz...
wanna go overseas again~
Friday 7 January 2005
Ah Qing's memorial journal #1- Medan, Indonesia
[#1] dont get me wrong, i am not writing this becoz of the tsunami tragedy. haha! wanna share some of my overseas experience with you. well, just treat it like a story of mine! i will appreciate it very much!
13/12/1994 to 17/12/1994 - Ah Qing was 8 yrs old.
Indonesia was the 1st place i had ever been outside my homeland. Dun ask me why i didnt go jakarta lah, i went to medan instead. Medan is a city in the island of sumatra, which is also near the province of Aceh. Well, sotong qing was already very unhappy with Garuda airways...my 1st airplane trip sux..haha! medan's airport was ridiculous, coz it was so small. i couldnt remember much of that airport liao, maybe it had changed over the years. butta, i still remember that airport building looked like a "big kampung" building. haha! u cant believe it...it was worse than the domestic airports in thailand or china.
One of the famous spot in medan is Lake Toba, which was a volcano crater actually. Lake Toba was bigger than singapore! haiz...surprisingly, i had one of my best stays in indonesia. their hotels were fantastic! actually, i wondered if they were hotels. coz they looked more like resorts to me.
i took my first horse ride there too...inside the hotel named " Brastagi Cottage". u can even see a volcano nearby. fantastic scenery!
Also, went to see their traditional "long houses". a little like those in Sarawak. Their costumes are so colourful! not like those malay dressings. haha! Another hotel (which is like a resort too) got a better scenery...i could still remembered! outside the room, u can see great sceneries @ the mega big balcony. u know what u see? Sea & islands! my parents bought durians at the back of our rooms..haha! We also went to the honey moon island and waterfall.
Dont remind me the journey back..haiz...
[sunday] many things will happen on this day. got a zhui dao hui for those who had died in the tsunami tragedy. got ren ci charity show on channel u! also, py bdae...going to meet her & my si dang. gotta plan the gathering ah...haha! why am i always the organiser? haiz....
[ mum's big dae] 20 more days to go..dunno how to celebrate...must plan ! hehe!
13/12/1994 to 17/12/1994 - Ah Qing was 8 yrs old.
Indonesia was the 1st place i had ever been outside my homeland. Dun ask me why i didnt go jakarta lah, i went to medan instead. Medan is a city in the island of sumatra, which is also near the province of Aceh. Well, sotong qing was already very unhappy with Garuda airways...my 1st airplane trip sux..haha! medan's airport was ridiculous, coz it was so small. i couldnt remember much of that airport liao, maybe it had changed over the years. butta, i still remember that airport building looked like a "big kampung" building. haha! u cant believe it...it was worse than the domestic airports in thailand or china.
One of the famous spot in medan is Lake Toba, which was a volcano crater actually. Lake Toba was bigger than singapore! haiz...surprisingly, i had one of my best stays in indonesia. their hotels were fantastic! actually, i wondered if they were hotels. coz they looked more like resorts to me.
i took my first horse ride there too...inside the hotel named " Brastagi Cottage". u can even see a volcano nearby. fantastic scenery!
Also, went to see their traditional "long houses". a little like those in Sarawak. Their costumes are so colourful! not like those malay dressings. haha! Another hotel (which is like a resort too) got a better scenery...i could still remembered! outside the room, u can see great sceneries @ the mega big balcony. u know what u see? Sea & islands! my parents bought durians at the back of our rooms..haha! We also went to the honey moon island and waterfall.
Dont remind me the journey back..haiz...
[sunday] many things will happen on this day. got a zhui dao hui for those who had died in the tsunami tragedy. got ren ci charity show on channel u! also, py bdae...going to meet her & my si dang. gotta plan the gathering ah...haha! why am i always the organiser? haiz....
[ mum's big dae] 20 more days to go..dunno how to celebrate...must plan ! hehe!
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